GE Renewable Energy to hire more than 200 employees at its Cherbourg Factory

GE Renewable Energy has announced its plan to recruit more than 200 employees at its LM Wind Power wind turbine blade manufacturing site in Cherbourg, France. 60 out of the additional employees were recently recruited and just began intensive training at the factory's ‘Centre of Excellence'.

Opened in April 2018, the Cherbourg facility became the first wind turbine blade manufacturing site in France. A year later, the site counted 120 employees.

Prototyping phase began in January 2019, when the teams started the production of five 107 m blades, the largest in the world, set to be installed on GE's Haliade-X 12 MW offshore wind turbine, the most powerful one to date. While, in Saint-Nazaire, France, GE is producing the Haliade-X's nacelles. Two blades will be shipped to testing facilities, and three will be assembled to the Haliade-X prototype site in Rotterdam. The expanded production workforce will allow LM Wind Power to prepare the blades commercial production phase.

"This project creates enthusiasm as the factory is ramping-up, and we have witnessed a significant combination of efforts as we use the expertise from our facilities worldwide to train the people in Cherbourg"says Lukasz Cejrowski, LM 107.0 P Project Manager, "The teams are excited to have produced the first blade in the world longer than 100 meters. We are welcoming new people with diverse backgrounds, and at the same time, we are building a new blade of a size we have never achieved before."

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